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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

NodeStealer is custom-written in JavaScript and bundles the Node.js Diving a bit more into the file structure, we found that this malware is written in Javascript, executed using Node.js, and is compiled into a Windows executable with a tool from the Node Package Manager (NPM) called pkg. environment. For context, Node.js

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In 2018, attackers employed a BGP hijack that redirected traffic to Amazon’s authoritative DNS service. Having hijacked the DNS traffic, the adversary answered DNS queries for the web-based cryptocurrency wallet “myetherwallet.com” with a malicious IP address.

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Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review

CloudFaire

traffic is using post-quantum encryption. Cloudflares network currently spans more than 330 cities in over 120 countries/regions, serving an average of over 63 million HTTP(S) requests per second for millions of Internet properties, in addition to handling over 42 million DNS requests per second on average.